Donald Ralston Gibbons ’29

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Don died Sept. 27, 1997. He had prepared for college at East Orange H.S. and Asbury Park H.S.

After Princeton Don went immediately into electronic engineering, to which he devoted his whole career, working on special aspects of radio tubes at Fort Evans and Fort Monmouth. He was a research specialist in the Army's Electronic Command. Don was extremely active in the Belmar Presbyterian Church, serving as president, trustee, and financial secretary. He married Elizabeth S. Frank in 1950. She died in 1996, and Don's survivors are his brother, Archer, a nephew, Jon J. '63, and a great-nephew, Elliot '95. The class extends sincere sympathy to Don's family.

The Class of 1929

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